Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 16 14
Rank change year-on-year -28 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 179 379 387
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.13% 8.81% 11.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.86% 28.69% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 94 163 228
10th Percentile £40,015 £41,250 £39,987
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,125 £47,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -7.39%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £99,950 £90,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 580 1,321 1,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.63% 30.72% 42.62%
Number of salaries quoted 396 739 1,009
10th Percentile £33,125 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £89,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -42 80 £46,760 -33.20% 1,074
Buckinghamshire 0 50 £60,000 +9.09% 45
Oxfordshire +6 49 £65,000 +15.03% 144
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.68%) CMS
2 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.12%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) Appian
3 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.91%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 63 (35.20%) AWS
2 43 (24.02%) Azure
3 33 (18.44%) GCP
4 29 (16.20%) Power Platform
5 27 (15.08%) Amazon EC2
6 26 (14.53%) Serverless
7 20 (11.17%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (10.61%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (8.38%) GitHub
10 8 (4.47%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.91%) Google Analytics
11 7 (3.91%) Google Docs
12 6 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.35%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (1.68%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.26%) DNS
2 11 (6.15%) Firewall
3 4 (2.23%) Broadband
3 4 (2.23%) DHCP
3 4 (2.23%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.23%) Wireless
4 3 (1.68%) HTTP
4 3 (1.68%) InfiniBand
4 3 (1.68%) Internet
4 3 (1.68%) VPN
5 2 (1.12%) 5G
5 2 (1.12%) FTP
5 2 (1.12%) LAN
5 2 (1.12%) SMTP
5 2 (1.12%) SSH
5 2 (1.12%) WAN
6 1 (0.56%) MIMO
6 1 (0.56%) Network Security
6 1 (0.56%) NGN
6 1 (0.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.08%) Power BI
2 26 (14.53%) Relational Database
3 25 (13.97%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (13.41%) BigQuery
5 19 (10.61%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (10.61%) RDBMS
6 10 (5.59%) Tableau
7 9 (5.03%) Metadata
8 6 (3.35%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.79%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.79%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (2.23%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.68%) MySQL
12 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.12%) Data Hub
12 2 (1.12%) Looker
12 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (16.76%) Jenkins
2 19 (10.61%) JMeter
2 19 (10.61%) JUnit
2 19 (10.61%) Mockito
3 16 (8.94%) Git
4 9 (5.03%) JIRA
5 5 (2.79%) GitLab
5 5 (2.79%) Selenium
6 4 (2.23%) MLflow
6 4 (2.23%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.68%) Burp Suite
7 3 (1.68%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.68%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.68%) Postman
7 3 (1.68%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.12%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.56%) Appium
9 1 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.56%) MSBuild
General
1 49 (27.37%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.64%) Law
2 28 (15.64%) Marketing
3 23 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.73%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.94%) Finance
6 12 (6.70%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.59%) Retail
8 8 (4.47%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.79%) Legal
10 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.23%) Retail Finance
11 3 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.68%) Tech for Good
12 2 (1.12%) Banking
12 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.12%) Multimedia
12 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.56%) Automotive
13 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (17.32%) Developer
2 25 (13.97%) Architect
2 25 (13.97%) Senior
3 21 (11.73%) Java Developer
4 20 (11.17%) Cloud Architect
4 20 (11.17%) GCP Architect
4 20 (11.17%) Platform Architect
5 18 (10.06%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (9.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 16 (8.94%) Analyst
8 15 (8.38%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 15 (8.38%) Software Engineer
9 10 (5.59%) Lead
10 7 (3.91%) Author
10 7 (3.91%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 7 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) Technical Author
11 5 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.79%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (17.32%) HTML
2 28 (15.64%) REST
3 21 (11.73%) JSON
4 20 (11.17%) Spring
4 20 (11.17%) Spring Boot
4 20 (11.17%) Web Services
4 20 (11.17%) XML
5 19 (10.61%) ActiveMQ
5 19 (10.61%) Apache Camel
5 19 (10.61%) Hibernate
5 19 (10.61%) jQuery
5 19 (10.61%) WireMock
6 8 (4.47%) .NET
7 7 (3.91%) React
7 7 (3.91%) SOAP
8 3 (1.68%) CSS
8 3 (1.68%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.68%) Middleware
8 3 (1.68%) RESTful
8 3 (1.68%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.41%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.17%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.91%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.79%) IoT
4 5 (2.79%) SCADA
4 5 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.23%) Industry 4.0
5 4 (2.23%) Learning Management System
5 4 (2.23%) Life Science
5 4 (2.23%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 3 (1.68%) Animation
6 3 (1.68%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.12%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.12%) Replication
8 1 (0.56%) FPGA
8 1 (0.56%) LIMS
8 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.56%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.20%) Linux
2 11 (6.15%) Windows
3 10 (5.59%) Unix
4 3 (1.68%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.12%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.49%) Agile
1 51 (28.49%) Analytics
2 37 (20.67%) CI/CD
3 34 (18.99%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (18.99%) Roadmaps
4 32 (17.88%) Mentoring
5 31 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (16.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (16.20%) Computer Science
7 29 (16.20%) Strategic Roadmap
8 28 (15.64%) Data Science
9 27 (15.08%) Cloud Security
9 27 (15.08%) SDLC
10 25 (13.97%) DevOps
10 25 (13.97%) TDD
11 24 (13.41%) Architectural Design
11 24 (13.41%) Machine Learning
12 23 (12.85%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (12.29%) Microservices
13 22 (12.29%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 71 (39.66%) SQL
2 64 (35.75%) Java
3 47 (26.26%) JavaScript
4 24 (13.41%) Go
5 22 (12.29%) C#
5 22 (12.29%) C++
5 22 (12.29%) Shell Script
6 21 (11.73%) Bash
7 17 (9.50%) PowerShell
8 14 (7.82%) C
9 13 (7.26%) PHP
10 12 (6.70%) MATLAB
10 12 (6.70%) R
10 12 (6.70%) Ruby
10 12 (6.70%) TypeScript
11 9 (5.03%) Dart
11 9 (5.03%) Rust
12 8 (4.47%) T-SQL
13 6 (3.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (3.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 48 (26.82%) Degree
2 29 (16.20%) Security Cleared
3 17 (9.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (6.15%) Master's Degree
4 11 (6.15%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.35%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.35%) PhD
6 4 (2.23%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.23%) MCSE
6 4 (2.23%) RHCE
7 3 (1.68%) LPIC
7 3 (1.68%) OSCP
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.56%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.56%) GPEN
9 1 (0.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.70%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.15%) QA
3 5 (2.79%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.79%) GDPR
4 3 (1.68%) ECSS
4 3 (1.68%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.56%) GxP
5 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
System Software
1 37 (20.67%) Docker
2 4 (2.23%) vCloud
3 3 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.68%) GPFS
3 3 (1.68%) Lustre
3 3 (1.68%) NFS
4 2 (1.12%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (31.28%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.17%) Kibana
3 15 (8.38%) Ansible
4 12 (6.70%) Terraform
5 4 (2.23%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (2.23%) Kubeflow
5 4 (2.23%) Rundeck
6 3 (1.68%) Nmap
7 2 (1.12%) Argo
7 2 (1.12%) Grafana
7 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.56%) Control-M
8 1 (0.56%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.56%) SCCM
8 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (17.32%) Google
2 20 (11.17%) Dynatrace
3 19 (10.61%) Splunk
4 6 (3.35%) VMware
5 5 (2.79%) Allen-Bradley
5 5 (2.79%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.79%) Siemens
6 4 (2.23%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.68%) Databricks
7 3 (1.68%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.68%) Talend
8 2 (1.12%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.12%) Aruba
8 2 (1.12%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.12%) Mellanox
8 2 (1.12%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.12%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.12%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.12%) Zoho